// Photo: Anatoly Lomokhov / PhotoXPress.ru

About the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin

The exchange of courtesies between Yuri Loza and the producer of the Rolling Stones has been talked about all week. More than a hundred articles have been written on this topic, many of which have been published in the most respected publications. It's hard to believe, but it all started with the musician's statement, which he said on the air of the REN-TV show. Vine was invited to the program as a guest. It was about the work of world rock bands. Yuri, not shy, expressed his opinion.

“80 percent of what is sung by the Zeppelins, that is, Led Zeppelin, is impossible to listen to. Because it is played and sung badly. At that time, everything was perceived, everything was liked. The Rolling Stones never tuned their guitar in their entire lives, and Jagger never hit a single note, so what can you do. Richard (Keith Richards - editor's note) couldn't play then, and he can't play now. Well, it happened, ”said the musician in the Salt program.

Vine's words spread all over Runet and caused a wide resonance in society. It is worth noting that Rolling Stones fans have created many humorous photo collages on this topic.

The most striking thing is that the criticism of the musician reached the producer of the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Douglas. In conversation with reporters National Service news," he admitted that he had never heard of Vine before. He was outraged by such a critical assessment of the Russian legendary rock bands.

// Photo: Mikhail Zhukovich / PhotoXPress.ru

It is worth noting that Yuri was not at a loss and in response invited Mick Jagger to sing a duet.

“We could very well perform on the same stage. I look at it like a pro. I would say: earn good money and we will do a big PR campaign. 'Cause he's going to be great here, if he sings the verse of "The Raft," it'll be funny and cool and wonderful. And I would sing Satisfaction, - said Loza on the radio station "Moscow Speaks". - They want, they need, let them go. I’m sitting here, everything is fine with me, they are also self-sufficient.”

About Zemfira

Yuri Loza did not bypass the work of his stage colleague Zemfira, who in early April resounding success completed a tour of Russia. By the way, popular singer has long haunted the musician. Either he sees political undertones in her actions, or he is not satisfied with the lyrics of her songs. Two Moscow concerts of Zemfira as part of the tour " Small man" in total gathered more than 60 thousand people, however, in an interview with NSN, Loza admitted that this figure does not seem impressive to him.

“Here, they tell me that Zemfira has collected 60 thousand ... Of the 15 million people living in Moscow, 60 thousand elite-minded comrades who think that they understand the meaning of Zemfira's songs are within the limits of statistical error. No need to inflate an elephant out of a fly! Putin out of 140 million Russians is watched by 100 million, while they understand what he said, 50 million - this, I understand, is a figure, ”Yuri Loza compared. - Plus statements like "I'm leaving" - and some went to last time look at Zemfira. All these are PR steps, which should be treated with understanding.”

About Angelina Jolie

Being a media person, Yuri Loza is interested in the work and fate of not only his colleagues, but also others famous people. So, the news about the deterioration in the condition of Angelina Jolie did not leave the attention of the performer. There was a rumor in the media that Hollywood actress anorexia. Yuri showed compassion for the film star and jokingly suggested possible variant solution to her problem.

About Vladimir Putin

Of course, Yuri Loza listened attentively to the recent Direct Line with Vladimir Putin. The President received appeals from the population of the country and clarified the situation on topical issues. Among the questions there were also humorous ones, for example, about strong words. "It happens. For yourself only. There is such a sin in Russia, we will pray for it,” Putin said. However, Loza was very surprised to learn that the guarantor of the constitution is able to swear.

“Putin has never cursed on the air. Putin never cursed at the conference. I don't know where he swears if he says he does it. Let him do it as much as he likes, if no one hears, - Yuri Loza reasoned on the air of NSN. - If he says that he swears, for God's sake.

About the anthem of the Russian Federation

When journalists asked the composer and singer what question he himself would ask the president during the Direct Line, Loza gave a very unexpected answer. It turns out that if he had been given such an opportunity, Yuri would have asked Vladimir Putin when the Russian anthem would be changed.

“No one can remember the words of the anthem. Unsuccessful adopted the anthem. Why not write a good one? - the author of the song "Raft" was indignant on the radio "KP". - The anthem is not sung, it should come from the heart, but it doesn't. The importance of the problem lies in the fact that every day in the country begins with the performance of the anthem, so the text must be impersonal and written by a group of authors.”

“Something they have some kind of pestilence on the team. The second soloist leaves. I know several examples when pop artists did not give a damn about their health. Sasha Barykin is the same situation. He was told to lie down, he went on tour. You need to think with your head a little, it doesn’t happen iron people.

Zhenya Belousov - they also told him: take care of yourself, take care of your health, the doctors said. All the time we hope for a chance. It's a pity when people for no reason out of the blue make themselves such problems.

Somewhere it was necessary to rest, sleep off, go to the temple, sit on the shore with a fishing rod, just relax. If you understand that your body is not very good, wrap yourself up, buy a belt from dog hair. This is how I understand this life, I'm a practitioner, I'm sorry.

About the feat of Yuri Gagarin and The Beatles

“You understand what it is. Gagarin was the first. Gagarin did nothing, he was lying. He is the first most important astronaut. The Beatles were the first to hit the right spot in right time"(" Star ").

On the work of Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones

“80% of what is sung by Led Zeppelin is impossible to listen to because it is played and sung badly. At that time, everything was perceived, everything was liked. The Rolling Stones never tuned their guitar in their entire lives, and Jagger never hit a single note, so what can you do. Keith Richards couldn't play then, and he can't play now. But there is a certain drive in this, some kind of buzz. Many people project their youth onto these groups, but they were very weak” (Salt program, REN TV).

About Petersburg, its inhabitants and Peter I

“What does Peter produce, apart from show-offs? Why do you want to transfer money? For you to eat them? Tourism makes up one fiftieth of your city's budget, and you all get the rest in the form of subsidies. Just sit and eat just like Moscow eats. In general, Peter, of course, is a fool, there was no need to transfer the capital here. It was necessary to make a port, a tourist center. We need to try to demolish these five-story buildings, block houses, so that people leave St. Petersburg and go to work. You have five million freeloaders admiring the views and the bridges. Who the hell needs them nationwide? I'm not against St. Petersburg as a city, I'm just trying to explain to you as an economist how great it would be from the point of view of the economy and governance of the country,” Loza told Radio Baltika reporters.

About Bob Dylan and his Nobel Prize

“Guys, look at the wording, what did Dylan get for? Contribution to what? In the world song culture? What culture do you contribute to? Into the great American song tradition! The American tradition has suddenly become great, greater and, it turns out, more important than all world tradition or European, Thai, Japanese, whatever! A pocket prize, the Americans privatized it and began to give the Nobel to their own already for their contribution to world culture. Compare the wording that was once accepted as the main one for presenting this award with the wording with which it has now been awarded. They put an equal sign, even more than that, they put the American song culture above the world culture. That's all. Americans in again show who's in charge!

This is just a spit in the soul of the entire population of the world, because American culture becomes more important than all others if the world prize is awarded to contribute to American culture! This is not to give to Chekhov, who contributed to the world theatrical art, he wrote "The Seagull" (for example), it is performed all over the world. For Anna Karenina, Tolstoy was not given the Nobel Prize, although his novel was reprinted in all countries of the world. And Bob Dylan is given an award for songs that are sung only in America, only in English. No one reprints them, no one replays them, no one knows them, except for the Americans themselves. But for Nobel laureates now the main thing is what the Americans will say, and not what the world will think about them, ”Yuri Eduardovich got excited in a conversation with reporters

Yuri Loza commented on the website scandal surrounding his critical statements against world music legends.

“80% of what is sung by Led Zeppelin is impossible to listen to, because it is played and sung badly ... The Rolling Stones have never tuned their guitar in their entire life, and Jagger never hit a single note, so what can you do. Keith Richards couldn't play then, and he can't play now."

Yuri Loza

After an angry attack on the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin (on the air of the Salt program on REN TV), Yuri Loza became a real hero of the Internet. A couple of days after the glory that fell on him, the “helmsman” criticized Mozart and Zemfira. With a request to announce the entire list of claims, we contacted Yuri via Skype: on his "little raft" he sailed all the way to New York!

Hitting "for everyone"

"Yuri, what happened?" Why are you so angry? Everyone was offended, even Emil Dimitrov was called "garbage".

- I voiced my opinion. The presenter Zakhar Prilepin asked a question about my likes and dislikes - I answered. I have the right? But some dishonest comrades took and pulled quotes from my statements, compiled and gave out in an ironic way - "great thoughts of great people." Readers, subscribers attacked me, no one began to understand.

“It's terrible, of course. But personally, however, I always thought that about colleagues - either good or nothing. Kirkorov should have been crying with envy: everyone is discussing not his new show, but your attack on everyone.

- Every medal has two sides. Someone tried to put me in a negative light, and made me the most popular blogger. I became a media occasion!

- Cool twist!

- Offers poured in. They are ready to accept me as a host, commentator, expert in places where I did not even expect! Somewhere they even offered to become a full-time columnist. I jumped on a step on which I did not expect to see myself! Me on "Rain" the other day on " Round table» invited.

The Rolling Stones are far from the Vine... / Twitter

- But “Rain” is not “patriots”, not “ours”!

“I mean, even those who are against me are trying to hear what I say. This is indicative. My blog appeared on the radio - just talk, talk, everyone is interested.

Against Makarevich and Alibasov

- In the same program "Salt" you said about yourself: "I am a piece goods." But not everyone agrees. Even Alibasov, with whom you once started together, allowed unkind things in your address.

- You are strange. People ask Alibasov about music ... And what did he say, by the way?

- That your raft sank.

Alibasov has never been a musician. He played drums in his youth. When I brought him the song "Raft", it was in "Integral", he said that the song was g ... If a person did not recognize a potential hit, how can you talk to him about music at all? When I came to the Ust-Kamenogorsk Philharmonic, Alibasov led amateur performances there in the Metallurgists' Palace of Culture - a provincial little club on the outskirts, the team played slurred music. With my arrival, they began to represent something of themselves. The entire rise of Integral began with my appearance in this team. And Alibasov put on the light, organized tours and sold tickets.

– Makarevich took himself out of our community by calling all his colleagues “worms”. What should I talk to him about? I express my point of view, he expresses his.

Shevchuk does not understand

- Shevchuk is closer to me. And he recently said: “The time is now, you can become a hero or a bastard in one minute.” Do you agree?

– There are always two points of view on every event. In the eyes of the defenders of Donbass, the people who bring them humanitarian aid are heroes. In the eyes of those who consider the Donbass separatists, they are accomplices of the separatists.

Anna Netrebko helped the Donetsk theater. The entire Western world turned against her. Is she a hero or an antihero? Shevchuk does not understand this, he abandoned the image, but the decoding of the image is required - to explain to people.

- His remark “It is very important not to add evil to this world”, in my opinion, does not require decoding.

- Guys, there is such a philosophy of the cat Leopold - "let's live together." Near the Ukrainian school, young people are jumping and shouting: "Moskalyaku to Gilyak." I am a Muscovite, they say: "We will hang you." Should I hug them? The philosophy of the cat Leopold does not fit here.

– Do you remember the cartoon about Little Raccoon? He was angry, walked with a stick, and an evil monster looked at him from the lake. But when he smiled at his reflection, he saw the same cute character.

“But it was them with a stick—not me!”

Quoted Stalin

Are you planning to go into politics?

I have been offered this for a long time. I consulted with the family - they decided not to. I will have to vote in accordance with party discipline, as party leaders suggest. What if I don't agree? I will have to vote against mine.

– You once said in an interview: “Russia is not perfect, but if we don’t have another, we should accept this one.” Maybe not accept, but rather try to fix something?

– I practically quoted Stalin. In response to the remark of one of his officials, “Well, that’s the kind of people we have!” he once remarked: “I have no other people for you!” It must be corrected by systematic, well-thought-out steps. It's very easy to break. It's hard to build. I once lived near the pool on the site of the first Cathedral of Christ the Savior. I always thought: wow, the majestic structure was destroyed in order to dig a hole for the pool. These are incommensurable things.

Do you want to overthrow this government? Do you have something better?

- And what about the officials who steal from us - after all, they are also Russia?

“I have always suggested reducing the gap between rich and poor. How to reduce is the topic of a separate, long conversation. Let's hurry up your questions, it's time for me to get on the plane.

- Yes, I forgot to ask: what are you in New York for?

- A line from your own song: "let's forgive our enemies." Maybe we should at least let Savchenko go?

- Complete nonsense. All right, I have to go.

Show business stars cannot recover after the death of the 47-year-old former soloist of the Ivanushki group Oleg Yakovlev. The singer died suddenly on the morning of June 29 in one of the capital's clinics. Words of condolences are addressed to Oleg's relatives. However, some of Yakovlev's colleagues reacted differently to the news of his death. So, the singer Yuri Loza decided to speak out about the work of the group " Ivanushki International in general and Oleg Yakovlev in particular. According to Loza, early death young artists is due to the fact that they do not care about their health, and call them creative people in general it is possible with a big stretch.

“Something they have some kind of pestilence on the team. The second soloist leaves. I know several examples when pop artists did not give a damn about their health. Sasha Barykin is the same situation. He was told to lie down, he went on tour. You need to think with your head a little, there are no iron people. Zhenya Belousov- he was also told: take care of yourself, take care of your health, the doctors said. All the time we hope for a chance. It’s a pity when people for no reason, out of the blue, make such problems for themselves, ”said Loza in an interview with Izvestia.

In addition, Yuri Loza said that the soloists of the Ivanushki International group are absolutely mediocre: “For me, the issue of creativity is connected with the fact that a person has created something. Matvienko created for them, Shaganov created for them. They are performers. All three have always been absolutely mediocre in the matter of creativity. They are just normal guys. I treat them very well. But there is no need to mix them with creativity. They were given numbers, they wrote songs, they were selected according to their types. And Yakovlev was selected according to types. He left, but nevertheless, one must understand that he himself was needed as a type. Let's be honest, what did he write? What did he create? gotcha the right person at the right time. Flashed a face, and it came in handy. This does not mean that he did something great. He was born - everything.

Recall former soloist group "Ivanushki International" Oleg Yakovlev died on June 29 early in the morning in one of the capital's clinics. This was announced by the civil wife of the artist Alexandra Kutsevol. “Today at 7:05 am, the main Man of my life, my Angel, my Happiness, was gone ... How am I now without you? .. Fly, Oleg! I am always with you, ”the girl wrote in her microblog on Instagram.

Two days before the tragedy, the singer was taken to the hospital with a diagnosis of bilateral pneumonia. Organ edema arose against the background of cirrhosis of the liver. According to doctors, the musician's condition was critical, so he was immediately connected to a lung ventilator. However, it was not possible to save Yakovlev's life.

Oleg Yakovlev joined the Ivanushki International group in 1997, replacing the deceased Igor Sorin. Together with Andrei Grigoriev-Apollonov and Kirill Andreev, Oleg Yakovlev recorded the song "Poplar Fluff", which instantly soared to the top of the charts. In 2013, the artist decided to leave the group and concentrate on his solo career.

Oleg Yakovlev with his civil wife Alexandra Kutsevol

Musician Yuri Loza believes that journalists misrepresent his words about Western musicians, but at the same time continues to give them assessments. So in an interview with the Latvian radio station Baltkom, Loza said that Jimi Hendrix was a weak guitarist, but he still remains a legend. The interview was conducted by Andrey Leshkevich and Vadim Radionov.

Baltkom: Internet media in recent times give great attention to your statements, the comment about Gagarin was no exception, does the Internet correctly reflect your position?

Vine: Of course not. Journalists need a scandal, so they misrepresent everything, turn it upside down. I just said that compared to today's cosmonauts and what they do, Gagarin did nothing special, except that he was the first to fly into space. And he is a great Gagarin, because he did it first. He was in the same suit, practically immobilized, nevertheless he opened the way to space. This is what I said. And The Beatles were in the right place at the right time. I think that if those same The Beatles, who received a flurry of popularity in 1963, would have appeared ten years later, then nothing like this would have happened. This is what happens in history. The Beatles got into the development of television. They were the first to step into every home with these boxes. The same thing happened to Elvis Presley, who entered every home a decade earlier with the advent of radios. So it is with all innovations. The first people who played electronic instruments became stars. Like Jean-Michel Jarre, for example. And those who play electronic instruments today can no longer achieve such popularity, because this is a passed stage. Here's what I said.

Baltkom: How do you even feel about this kind of media popularity that haunts you after famous sayings about The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, positively or negatively?

Vine: This is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, no one hears what I'm talking about, they distort and alter everything. I just said that the technical level of these musicians is very low compared to the musicians who play today. It's not about the music, they wrote great music, they created styles, directions, I do not discuss this. I'm just saying that if we are discussing, for example, Jimi Hendrix, then he played poorly. However, he is the first to discover such a yelling, screaming, crying guitar. But everything turns upside down, and my phrase can be served in such a way that Loza called Hendrix a bad guitarist. It’s hard for me to fight with journalists, they have an advantage over me, they give it all away, and then I have to make excuses. The last thing that was said is that I allegedly have something against Deep bands Purple. Bullshit. I was asked on the program if I would go to their concert, I said that I would not go. I was asked why, I replied that my two favorites from deep purple, those whom I really listened to and considered one of the the greatest musicians, this is Jon Lord, who died of prostate cancer, and Blackmore, who is now working on his project, they will not come, and it turns out that this is not exactly the lineup that I would like to see. Immediately, at some press conference, they approached Deep Purple, shoved them on mobile phone some song of mine, and they said - you know, this musician called you shit. Well, fir-trees, the journalists were completely brainwashed. Of course, they answered that they did not know such a musician, how could he say so, let him listen and so on. Out of nothing, an informational occasion and a bomb are made.

Baltkom: Has Internet popularity affected your musical activity, do you write new songs, are listeners and the music industry interested in them?

Vine: I became a radio host, I have my own blog, on Sundays I am on the air for an hour on Komsomolskaya Pravda radio. I comment on a lot of things, I constantly invite journalists, although lately I feel like it less and less. There were a lot more requests for help to get promoted and to give money, this really has become more. Materially, nothing has changed, songs are written as they are, books are being written, publications in the networks are going on. Nothing in life has changed, only the number of requests for help has increased. But I can't help everyone, I'm not all-powerful.

Earlier in an interview with Zvezda, Loza compared the first cosmonaut of the planet Yuri Gagarin with by The The Beatles, noting that Gagarin "did nothing". “You understand what it is. Gagarin was the first. Gagarin did nothing, he was lying. He is the first most important astronaut. The Beatles were the first to hit the right place at the right time,” said the musician. In March of this year, Loza took part in Zakhar Prilepin's program "Salt", where he spoke critically about some Western musicians. In particular, Loza said that The Rolling Stones "have never tuned their guitar in their entire lives," and the band's leader, Mick Jagger, "hadn't hit a single note." Vine's remarks caused a heated discussion on the network.